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Fast sin implementation for IEEE754 doubles.
inline double fast_sin(double x) {
// Polynomial constants generated with sollya.
// fpminimax(sin(x), [|1,3,5,7|], [|D...|], [-pi/2;pi/2]);
// Both relative and absolute error is 9.39e-7.
const double magicround = 6755399441055744.0;
const double negpi = -3.14159265358979323846264338327950288;
const double invpi = 0.31830988618379067153776752674502872;
const double a = -0.00018488140186756154724131984146140;
const double b = 0.00831189979755905285208061883395203;
const double c = -0.16665554092439083255783316417364403;
const double d = 0.99999906089941981157664940838003531;
// Range-reduce to [-pi/2, pi/2] and store if period is odd.
union { double x; uint64_t i; } u { invpi*x + magicround };
uint64_t odd_period = u.i << 63;
u.x = x + negpi*int32_t(u.i & 0xffffffff);
// 7th degree odd polynomial followed by IEEE754 sign flip on odd periods.
double x2 = u.x*u.x;
double p = d + x2*(c + x2*(b + x2*a));
u.i ^= odd_period;
return u.x * p;
}
inline double fast_cos(double x) {
const double pi_2 = 1.57079632679489661923132169163975144;
return fast_sin(x + pi_2);
}
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